Friendly Bob

“A Republic, if you can keep it” "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities" Every Cat A Wildman

[Friendly Bob @FriendlyBobA]

@Popehat You do you, but the Biden criticism sounds pretty lame while Trump is still couping

[Friendly Bob @FriendlyBobA]

@Rell___1984 @acnewsitics You have your own post office? How handy!

[Sam Stein @samstein]

More than a few people who were barking this morning that California Dems had rigged the election against Pratt are currently congratulating Steve Hilton on making the gubernatorial runoff without any recognition that these two things don't compute

[Friendly Bob @FriendlyBobA]

@RoguePOTUSStaff He’s part of the Koch mafia. As a lifelong Kansas Democrat I am begging Iowa to keep him

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night.

The White House needs to explain why Donald Trump keeps going to the hospital and taking cognitive tests.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

crazy that if you harbor self-hate you will think that everyone hates you, but there's only one man in the US who can visit new york city and get boo'd from every corner of the stadium and general city

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

The definition of a Christian is simple: a person who follows the actual teachings of Jesus Christ.

So no one, basically.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Happy National Best Friends Day

[Paul Rudnick @PaulRudnickNY]

People have been asking for images of the flesh-eating screwworm that's been threatening livestock

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT, PEOPLE SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO WHAT HUNTER BIDEN SAYS BECAUSE HE WAS A DRUG ADDICT🤔 BUT PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE MEDICAL ADVICE FROM RFK WHO IS ALSO A FORMER DRUG ADDICT AND A CONSPIRACY NUT 🙄

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE 🙄

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Very disappointed by the crowd’s reaction. I get it: I’m jealous of the young woman that gets to watch the game right next to Trump. But that’s no reason to boo her. Do better, Knicks fans.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

To recap the Knicks game, Trump:

Inconvenienced everyone.

Cost businesses money.

Got booed.

Fell asleep.

Jinxed the Knicks.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Ummm...a reporter trying to get the facts?

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@SenTedCruz the guy who didn’t defend his wife and who left Texas as an brutal Snow storm was arriving to Texas, talking about the meaning of “masculine”…🤣🤣🤣😆😅😇hello?

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[RipWheeler @JimMcNulty19]

@southernphd

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Democrats are so diabolical and ingenious at rigging elections that Republicans control the presidency, house and senate.